Mountbellew Poor Law Union, Board of Guardian Minutes, 1852
TeidealMountbellew Poor Law Union, Board of Guardian Minutes, 1852
StórGalway County Council Archives Services
TagairtGPL4/04
Dáta26 March 1852 - 29 October 1852
Cruthaitheoir Mountbellew Poor Law Union
Dáta táirgthe 1852-03-26 - 1852-10-29
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| Includes: | ||
| - ‘Letter from commissioners forwarding a form which they request to be filled up with the necessary particulars relating to Rose Kelly whom the Guardians propose to assist to emigrate to America and requesting a medical certificate as to her fitness for emigration’ (p9). | ||
| - Letter from the PLC stating ‘that there appears to be no object to the Emigration of the Mannion family with regard to Mary Costello, however and her four children, the Commissioners entertain great doubts of the propriety of assisting a family to emigrate thereby separating them from the parent when health has failed and they are not prepared, therefore, to consent to the Guardians charging upon the Rates the expenditure necessary for the emigration of Mary Costello and her children’ (p25) | ||
| - ‘The Board having considered the want of having immediately either an oven or hotplates in the workhouse. Resolved : That Mr Wilkinson (architect) be requested to direct Mr Egan the contractor to proceed at once with the completion of the oven as originally intended’ (p89). | ||
| - ‘Letter from Mr Wilkinson architect stating that the new workhouse could be occupied by the paupers’ (p104). | ||
| - ‘Order that 50 of the able bodied paupers from this Union in Ballinasloe workhouse be removed to the new workhouse here on Monday next (17th May), and that Mr Lohan Relieving Officer be directed to accompany the Master to Ballinasloe for the purposes of assisting in their removal’ (p107). | ||
| - ‘The Master reported having removed from the Ballinasloe Workhouse 119 of the inmates chargeable to Mountbellew Union’ (4 Jun 1852, p151). | ||
| - ‘The Master requests the Board’s instructions in reference to the removal of more paupers from the Ballinasloe Union, he is prepared in every respect except clothing; he feels that brining them in the clothing such as was recently sent would be only storing here a heap of useless rags;... Ordered: That no more clothing be removed from Ballinasloe, nor paupers transferred until new clothing be prepared for them’ (p167). | ||
| - ‘Letter from same (PLC) forward a Form in which particulars are to be filled relating to Honor Fallon and her son whom the Board of Guardians propose to assist to emigrate to America’ (p120, see also p168). | ||
| - ‘Letter from Commissioners enquiring how soon the Guardians propose to withdraw the remainder of the inmates chargeable to this Union from Ballinasloe workhouse. This inquiry if made with reference to the continuance of the present order reserving accommodation for paupers from Mountbellew in Ballinasloe Union. In reply to the above letter the Guardians beg to state that in consequence of the disgraceful clothing sent with the paupers from Ballinasloe the Board at M Bellew tho ready to remove their paupers have come to the determination of taking no more clothing from Ballinasloe and have to request that the reservation order may be prolonged till they can get new clothing made up for the paupers and that they will withdraw them as same is ready which the Master reports will be within a month’ (p170). | ||
| - ‘The Master reported having removed 99 paupers on last Monday from Ballinasloe’ (2 Jul 1852, p214). | ||
| - ‘Read petition from Ellen Coffey stating that herself and her three aged respectfully 14, 13 and 10 years are inmates of the workhouse for the last six years chargeable to the E. Div of Annagh, that her husband sent her £5 from America and praying of Board to grant £5 more out of rates to enable her and her children to emigrate there…’ (p232, see also p247, see also p311). | ||
| - ‘Read letter from Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners addressed to Chairman stating in reply to Memorial of the Board requesting that some of the able bodied inmates of the Workhouse would be sent to Australia, that they will send 20 or 30 of the female inmates to Van Diemen’s Land provided the Board supply them with the necessary outfit and with the sum of 31 to each and have them conveyed to the Port of Embarkation in England free of expense to the Commissioners’ (23 Jul 1852, p264). | ||
| - ‘That the Commissioners attention be drawn to the loan given for the erection of the Union house at Mountbellew which the Board are led to be believed on the conclusion of the works leaves a considerable balance to credit of Union and as the Hospital accommodation is very defective and no Fever Hospital built the Board are anxious if possible to have such balance applied to the erection of a fever Hospital and it is hoped such appropriation would meet the Commissioners approbation and as the season for building is going by it is hoped they will ascertain the amount applicable as soon as possible’ (pp26607). | ||
| - ‘The Medical Officer reported the death of an inmate of the Workhouse named Nelly Mannion aged 70 years’ (p294). | ||
| - ‘Read letter from Mr Joseph Kelly offering to send July, Martin & Cathy Mannion inmates of the workhouse chargeable to Caltra Electoral Division to America provided the Board of Guardians would grant £5.10 out of the rates of said Division towards defraying the expenses of their emigration, he paying a like sum’ (p360). | ||
| - ‘Read letter from Mr John F Browne offering to send Catherine, Michael, Biddy and Mary Moore inmates of the workhouse chargeable to Castleblakeney Division to America….’ (p393). | ||
Fairsingec.500pp
TeangaEnglish
Eochairfhocail an duine Mountbellew Poor Law Union
ÁbharEmigration, Workhouses
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